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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.
Sestet
Convention
Author's Purpose
Dramatic Irony
2. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.
Point of View
Anapest
Legend
Figurative Language
3. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.
Spondee
Elegy
Persona
Sonnet
4. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.
Metonymy
Cliche
Exposition
Conflict
5. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.
Audience
Anapest
Parallelism
Tone
6. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Exposition
Motif
Comic Relief
Foot
7. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.
Quatrain
Act
Spondee
Ballad
8. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.
Elision
Folklore
Synecdoche
Apostrophe
9. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.
Oxymoron
Epic
Voice
Imagery
10. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.
Rhythm
Audience
Sonnet
Caesura
11. The person who 'tells' the story.
Diction
Narrator
Apostrophe
Synecdoche
12. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
External Conflict
Allegory
Octave
Subplot
13. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.
Rising Action
Allusion
Analogy
Dramatic Irony
14. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Stanza
Mood
Anapest
15. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.
Conceit
Hyperbole
Diction
Imagery
16. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.
Epic
Hyperbole
Irony
Fiction
17. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.
Figurative Language
Image
Metaphor
Character
18. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
Antagonist
Stereotype
Mood
Comic Relief
19. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.
Narrative Poem
Figurative Language
Verbal Irony
Enjambment
20. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.
Fiction
Dialect
Personification
Stereotype
21. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Structure
Solioquy
Elision
Reversal
22. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.
Foreshadowing
Diction
Folklore
Pyrrhic
23. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.
Ballad
Lyric Poem
Blank Verse
Parable
24. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.
Exposition
Simile
Stereotype
Oxymoron
25. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.
Sestina
Syntax
Audience
Dialect
26. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.
1st Person
Sonnet
Symbol
Author's Purpose
27. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.
Foil
Characterization
Enjambment
Couplet
28. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.
Denouement
Personification
Trochee
Denotation
29. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.
Repetition
Style
Meter
Plot
30. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.
Synecdoche
Anapest
Cliche
Epiphany
31. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.
Oxymoron
Flashback
Narrator
Stanza
32. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.
Folklore
Epic
Symbolism
Irony
33. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.
Simile
Point of View
Persona
Flashback
34. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.
Epiphany
Parallelism
Closed Form
Fiction
35. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.
Theme
Dactyl
Quatrain
Mood
36. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.
Style
Flashback
Sonnet
Conflict
37. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.
Assonance
Tercet
Conceit
Allegory
38. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.
Free Verse
Synecdoche
Meter
Tercet
39. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.
Foreshadowing
Analogy
Parable
Alliteration
40. What a story or play is about.
Subject
Satire
Foil
Elegy
41. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.
Literal Language
Caesura
Allegory
Stanza
42. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Style
Elegy
Reversal
Cliche
43. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.
Apostrophe
Syntax
Convention
3rd Person (Omniscient)
44. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.
Sestet
Stereotype
Satire
Connotation
45. The dictionary meaning of a word.
Denotation
Recognition
Fiction
Spondee
46. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.
Subplot
Voice
Iamb
Folklore
47. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.
Parallelism
Couplet
Protagonist
Convention
48. Broken down acts.
Scenes
Aubade
Epic
Dactyl
49. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.
Suspense
Quatrain
Apostrophe
Aubade
50. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.
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